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Manage event definitions
The runtime environment emits events. You create an inbound event for each event definition that corresponds to an event that you want to monitor. You further refine your monitor model to extract the relevant data from the events as they arrive at run time. You might also define outbound events to send alerts or to communicate between models. You can refer to event definitions in another project or import event definitions from the file system into the monitor model project.
- Common Base Event and XML Schema Definition event definitions
Each inbound and outbound event in the monitor model refers to a particular event definition that defines its structure. Event definitions can be found in XML Schema Definition (XSD), Common Base Event, or Web Services Description Language (WSDL) files, or a combination.- Referencing event definitions in other locations
If you are monitoring an event source other than a Process Server application, first import the event definitions that describe the events that are emitted by the runtime system to be monitored, so that you can create a monitor model with inbound events for each of these definitions.
- Importing event definitions from an external system
You can import event definitions (.xsd files) to be used as the types of inbound and outbound events in the monitor model.
- Create event definitions
Sometimes you might want to create your own event definitions, for example to define a communication event for communicating between two models, or to define an outbound event to carry specific information.- Update event models
When you specify the type of an inbound or outbound event in the monitor details model or key performance indicator (KPI) model, the XML Schema Definition (XSD) or Common Base Event file containing the event type definition is automatically added as an import location to the event model in the XML source document. The Event Model page displays the event model in a table.